Iran’s Revolution Turns Forty Atlantic Council and the University of Southern Florida Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Atlantic Council Headquarters Speaker Biographies Holly Dagres Nonresident Fellow, Middle East Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council Holly Dagres is a nonresident fellow with the Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is also the editor of Scowcroft Center’s IranSource blog and curator for the weekly newsletter, The Iranist. Before joining the Atlantic Council, Holly worked as a freelance Iran analyst, regularly following traditional and social media in English and Persian. She also worked as the assistant editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, associated with the American University in Cairo’s Global Affairs and Public Policy School. Holly received a master’s degree in political science at the American University in Cairo, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and French from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2013, she conducted on-the-ground research in Iran on the impact of sanctions for her master’s degree thesis. Haleh Esfandiari Former and Founding Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Haleh Esfandiari, the former and founding director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center. In her native Iran, she was a journalist, served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran, and was the deputy director of a cultural foundation where she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers. She taught Persian language at Oxford University and, prior to coming to the Wilson Center, from 1980 to 1994, she taught Persian language, contemporary Persian literature, and courses on the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University. The author of My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran (2009) and Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution (1997), she has written articles and op-eds for a number of outlets including Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Chronicle of Higher Education and Middle East Review. Esfandiari is the first recipient of a yearly award established in her name, the Haleh Esfandiari Award; this award was presented to her by a group of businesswomen and activists from countries across the Middle East and North Africa region. Nazila Fathi Journalist and Author Nazila Fathi is the former New York Times correspondent based in Tehran and the author of The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran (2014). She covered Iran from 1993 to 2010. She won two Harvard fellowships for her coverage of Iran, a Nieman and a Shorenstein, and was an associate at the Harvard Belfer Center. She also translated a book by 2003 human rights Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, History and Documentation of Human Rights in Iran (1999), from Persian to English for which she was awarded a human rights fellowship at Lund University in Sweden. Kevan Harris Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles Kevan Harris is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (2017). Harris is the lead researcher for the Iran Social Survey, a nationwide survey of social and economic life under the Islamic Republic. Prior to coming to UCLA, Harris was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. His writings on Iranian politics, economy, and society have appeared in numerous venues such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Time. Colonel (Ret.) Derek J. Harvey Senior Advisor, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Derek J. Harvey currently serves as the senior advisor for the House Permanent Select Committee for Intelligence. Prior to this, he was the special assistant to the President and senior director for the Middle East on the National Security Council for President Donald Trump. Harvey has a broad range of expertise working inter-agency policy formulation, strategic planning, designing analytical studies, and writing estimates and policy papers. As the director of the Global Initiative for Civil Society and Conflict at the University of South Florida, he focused on developing knowledge and insights in a socio- cultural-political context to inform smarter decision-making. During his military career, he served as special advisor to four Multi-National Forces-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq Commanders, Chief, Commander’s Assessments and Initiatives Group and “Red Cell” Team Chief for Combined Joint Task Force-7 and Multi-National Force-Iraq and Chief, Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia Division working Department of the Army and OSD-Policy issues. David Ignatius Columnist, The Washington Post David Ignatius is associate editor and columnist at The Washington Post. Since 2003, he has been the author of a twice weekly, globally distributed column on global politics, economics and international affairs. Prior to this, Ignatius served as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune and in a variety of positions at The Washington Post including assistant managing editor for business news, foreign editor and editor of Outlook section. Before joining The Post, Ignatius worked at the Wall Street Journal, where he began as a reporter and later was Middle East correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent. The author of numerous articles for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly and others, Ignatius has also written ten novels, including Body of Lies (2007) which was made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Ridley Scott. He is a fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and has taught as an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School. Ambassador (Ret.) John Limbert Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran John Limbert served for 34 years in the US Foreign Service and for 12 years (until June 2018) as Class of 1955 professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the United States Naval Academy. During his time in the Foreign Service, he served mostly in the Middle East and Islamic Africa, including postings in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Guinea, and Sudan. He was ambassador to Mauritania (2000-03) and president of the American Foreign Service Association (2003-05). He also served two tours in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. In 2009-2010, while on leave of absence from the Naval Academy, he served as deputy assistant secretary – responsible for Iranian affairs -- in the State Department’s Near East bureau. Before joining the Foreign Service, he taught in Iran as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kurdistan Province and as an instructor at Shiraz (then Pahlavi) University. He has written numerous articles and books on Middle Eastern subjects including Iran at War with History (1987), Shiraz in the Age of Hafez (2004), and Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History (2009). Limbert holds the Department of State’s highest award – the Distinguished Service Award – and the department’s Award for Valor, which he received in 1981 after 14 months as a hostage in Iran. Adnan Mazarei Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund Adnan Mazarei is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he focuses on the Middle East and Central Asia. Prior to this, he had a 25-year career at the International Monetary Fund, culminating in his service from 2011-2018 as deputy director, Middle East and Central Asia Department. Mazarei also served as assistant director of the department and mission chief for Pakistan; as assistant director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department; advisor to the First Deputy Managing Director; deputy division chief, Middle Eastern Department and as an economist, working on countries including Russia, the Philippines, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Before joining the IMF, Mazarei was a consultant at the World Bank and a research assistant at the UCLA Department of Economics/Gustav von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. His publications include: Four Years after the Spring (2015, with Tokhir Mirzoev) Finance & Development (2015, Vol. 52, No. 2); Sovereign Wealth Funds and the IMF (2012, with Udaibir Das and Alison Stuart); Sovereign Investment, Concerns and Policy Reactions (2012); and two chapters in Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Issues for Policymakers (2010). He is also the author of The Iranian Economy under the Islamic Republic: Institutional Change and Macroeconomic Performance (1996), and Imports Under a Foreign Exchange Constraint: The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1995). Mohsen Milani Executive Director, Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies, University of South Florida Mohsen Milani is the executive director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies, and professor of Politics at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. An internationally recognized scholar, he has been a research fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. He served as chairperson of the Department